Varun Sonagra

Senior Design Verification Engineer @ Arm

About

At present working as a DV Engineer, who is fascinated to find bugs like a mystery solving detective. Interested to learn and work on anything cool, which breaks the mold and creates new opportunities towards the future. SOFT SKILLS : I'm confident, creative, highly associative, organized, able to work in small and big teams efficiently and with demonstrated excellent communication and presentation skills.

Country

India

City

Bengaluru

Industry

Semiconductors

Skill

CPU design, Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC), Functional Verification, Digital Designs, Digital Logic, C (Programming Language), Debugging, Verilog, ARM Architecture, System on a Chip (SoC), Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), Digital Electronics, Analytical Skills, Marketing Strategy, Corporate Branding, Public Relations, Distributed Systems, Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI), C, Matlab

Experience

Senior Design Verification Engineer

Arm

2024-3 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

Bengaluru

Client, Compute, IOT and Infrastructure projects experience. TB Development from scratch, UVM RAL Implementation with DPI, Boot Flow verification

Engineer

Qualcomm

2021-7 - 2024-3 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

During my tenure at Qualcomm, I extensively worked on CPU Subsytem level verification of Ultra Premium Tier to Mid tier Automotive and Compute project cycles covering the RTL to GLS Non PA, as well PA verification. Where I have used C and SV(UVM) to code randomized weighted constraint based UVM compliant testbenches, adding assertions, coverage bins and checkers to obtain code coverage and close on coverage holes. Have gained extensive knowledge on AMBA APB, AHB, AXI protocols,GIC interrupts, ARM architecture, debugging utlities like Tarmac and tools like Synopsys Verdi, Mentor Questasim, Xilinx Vivado to name a few. Have working knowledge of ARM low power modes.

System Verification Intern

Arm

2021-1 - 2021-6 · 6 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked as an Intern Verification for Systems Engineering • Worked on ARM IP based Systems for validation and performance verification of CPU, System and Media IPs. Implemented on Emulator and FPGA platforms. • Gained experience in integration of A-class (Cortex-A53, Cortex-A72, Cortex-A65AE) and R-class (Cortex-R5) ARM IP based Systems from bringing up to bench-marking. Sound knowledge of ARM architecture with exposure to ARMv7 and ARMv8. • Worked on Cluster Component creation of Cortex-R5 based system from RTL, configuring AMBA AXI Bus matrix and integrating an indigenous memory controller. Applied shell scripting for the system flow.

Teaching Assistant

Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad

2020-8 - 2020-12 · 5 mos

Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Working as a Teaching Assistant and responsible for course work and lab work of B. Tech students for : 1. Analog Electronics 2. Microprocessor Interface & Programming

Student Researcher

Spintronics and Magnetic Materials Laboratory, IIIT Allahabad

2020-1 - 2020-4 · 4 mos

Allahabad Area, India

Worked on the simulation of MOSFETs with different materials like GaN, MoS₂ etc for their characteristics development as heterostructure Schottky diode and MIS structure using COMSOL Multiphysics and MATLAB.

Head Of Department

Effervescence, IIIT Allahabad

2018-4 - 2018-10 · 7 mos

Allahabad Area, India

Executive

Effervescence, IIIT Allahabad

2017-4 - 2018-4 · 1 yr 1 mo

Allahabad Area, India

As an executive I've worked in the field of Marketing, Branding and Public Relations along with having encompassed a hands on experience in the field of work. I learned about the importance of minuscule steps to earn sponsorship and it's effective management via Branding, Budgeting and optimal Public Relations via Media management. This job helped me gain a hands on experience of the corporate sector and finance.